Saturday, November 1, 2014

A Life Unbroken (The Alex McKay Series)-K.M. Hewitt

A Life Unbroken (The Alex McKay Series)

K.M. Hewitt

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 31 2014, $14.95

ISBN: 9781499160819

In Hadley, California, USDA plant biologist Dr. Alex McKay enjoys
her work as the team leader researching hemp and loves her personal life with
Ryan Stinson and her dog Abby. A storm
breaks a window at her lab so security follows protocol calling her to inspect
her facility. Hers is okay, but the high
security lab near her is not as a tree smashed into the roof. When she goes over to see what is going on,
they tell her to leave. Dr. Mannheim
explains to White House Chief of Staff Mitchell Kincaid re Alex’s two intrusions.

Agricultural Secretary Grist sends Alex to Columbia; while a
plague kills four Hadley residents, others are very ill and CDC stymied on how
this deadly ancient virus mutation spreads.
Upon arrival in Columbia soldiers snatch Alex and take her to brutal Prision del Perdido
off of Venezuela where the only escape is death from the extremely hostile
conditions. Unaware of why she was
abducted and dumped in this horrendous Island Prison; she struggles to
survive.

Starting with a stunning opening in which the beleaguered heroine
begins looking at what rendition did to her life, Alex provides the audience
with a haunting first-hand account of her odyssey. Her harrowing prison experience feels real
and her plant skills, freeing her, seems possible. Her return to the prison is an unnecessary
foolish risk that her sponsor would have prevented rather than encouraged since
the second revenge plot requires Alex McKay dead and Alexandra Golindez alive;
and a Biological Weapons Lab would have 24/7
security at the facility rather than hiding in plain sight. Still this is a timely, gripping taut
thriller.